The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-09-21
Farm Notes.

Tomato scions have been successfully |
grated on to potato stalks, but to no adj |
vantage.
No oil penetrates wood as well as crude
petroleum, none is so cheap, and none SO /
effective as preservative.
Hens must be kept warm and sheltered
from the inclemercies of the weather IL
expected to lay in winter.
The Husbandman says that the farmer
who picks out his latest and best sheep
and lambs 70 sell will find, after time,
his flock so far run down that nobody will
care to buy.
A difference in the yield of milk of four
quarts day, even at two cents a quart, is
equal to $24 a year, which is the interest
at per cent. on $500. A difference of 100
pounds of butter year is equal to the
same amount. With ten cows this counts
up pretty fast.
Among the trees most troublesome to
drains, in respect to filling them with their
roots, are the willow, elm and poplar.
The common locust should never be plant
ed near wells. 1t imparts a disagreeable
taste to the water. The inner bark is
poisonous.
In this country nearly s. worth of milk,
cream, butter and cheese together are sold
and consumed TO every dollars worth OF
beef. What is more, there is not much
danger that the market for dairy products
will ever be less than it is now-it is prac-
tically inexhaustible.
1t is thought that at no distant day the
culture of the olive will become one of the
most important SIS we'll as profitable fields
of horticultural enterprise with Us, as ii is
at resent with many countries in the
South OF Europe, whose chief revenue is
derived from the export of olive oil and
picked olives.
The American Cultivator remarks that
as trees are generally scraped, more harm
than good results from the operation.
Great care should always be taken not to
disturb or injUre the lower and living part
of the bark. A common mason's trowel or
a short-handled hoe makes good scraper.
The carrot bias more fattening qualities
than other roots and for this reason Is par
hculsrly adapted to sheep, young cattle
and all animals intended for meat. Car
rots will help to fatten animals quickly
and with less cost than other roots, aud
quick fattening produces tender and juicy
meat.
1t is a fact that a strong nest of humble
bees in clover field is worth $50 to the
owner, for these insects are the chief agents
in fertilizing the blossom, thereby insur-
ing a heavy crop of seed. In Australia
there are no humble bees of our kind, aud
they could not raise clover.seed until they
imported some.-New York Sun
If you have old trees that have failed to
yield profitable crops of fruit dig the soil
up thoroughly and then apply a good
dressing of well-rotted stable manure and
work thoroughly into the soil. Then, If
you have them, apply dressing of wood
ashes. If these fail to revive the tree, at
ter giving q good pruning, it is about past
rodo nj nd oh ofu va 10
thing better.
A pigeon.lof should be arranged on ev-
cry farm. There is as much profit il
in pigeons as in chickens, if rightly cared
for. Sell all the squads before they fly, or
use them upon the home table. There is
no dantier morsel of food than a SQUAD
that has still little down on its head.
Alter they commended.to. fly the tender
flesh is soon hardened into muscles, and
they are not SO palatabIe.
Tie difficulty of curing fodder corn in
its immature state, SAYS an exchange,
become too ripe before cutting. The stage
OF Towering is considered the best time TO
cut other forage crops, and corn appears to
be no exception. The rule very generally
observed among experienced growers 1t to
cut fodder corn for drying in the early
blossom of the tassel. at whatever age the
fodder is harvested it is wise to have the
crop cut before being touched by frost.
Profit in agriculture means hard work
and plenty of ii. Instead of few old log
gums aud box hives and birthstone for the
D=es III The fail, with no man Agament, the
present demands the best movable frame
hives, with large capacity for Surplus,
simple in construction, and admitting of
ease and spt ed In bandliDg-one that Will
winter well on summer stands without
FATHER packing or protection, with en-
trarce essily contracted or enlarged, aud
With y brood cnGm Der that can be expand
ed at wilt.
This was the way a country blacksmith
WAS sf en- removing that portion of al axe
bsEdle from tbe sxe that remained In the
the eye, the break having been close to
| the iron. The wood could not be driven
| cut, and as nails had been driven in at the
end IT could not be bored out. He drove
the bit of sharp edge into some moist
earth and then built fire around the pro.
| jecting part. The wood was soon charred
| so that it was easily removed. The moist
earth so protected the tempered part OF
axe that it sustained no injury.
Like pretty much all staple products,
says the Rural World, WOOL il an article
| the value of which is made to ebb aud
| flow with annual periodicity. Now the
1 cause 10 Ouc fsnu dsalu IL 10 duObncE'
but be the causs what it may, it usually
comes; and yet, taking everything into
consideration, that is to say, supposing the
owner has otherwise inteliigently handled
his flock, wool at from IL to % cents q
pound is far from being Improbable pro-
duct. The money comes in AZ a season
of the year when $50 or 500 to the farmer
is very acceptable.
DR.. A. B. Grifiths, an English physician
has Just published communication which
is of great importance to horticulturist:
end agriculturists. He demonstrates tha
iron sulphate is an antidote for many o.
the most virulent epidemics which attack
held and garden CROPS. These diseases arr
duo to microscopic funguses, whose struc
lures are b1ilt up in q somewhat different
manner TO the corresponding parts 10 Othe
plants. IL appears that the cellulose IL
these fupguses is acted upon by iron sui
phate, whereas in the higher plants th'
cellulose Of the cell walls is not influenced
The sc-called "French MastIc," so lon,
known as "Lefort's Grating Wax" i
made by melting one pound of com mo-
resin over q gentle fire and stirring in on
ounce Of beef tallow. Take from the FIRE
and when it shall have partially coolies
mix in eight ounces of alcohol. IL thi
cool it off too rapidly, it must again b.
placed over the fire, but great caution mus
| he 20 he al faH in.